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The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
- ▶ 43:41 Nikhil Gupta So in Bangalore and now the advantage with AI and cloud that you can start anywhere else. 2 times in the scene
Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital
- ▶ 18:40 Krishna Mehra Like whether a kid is moving from, uh, uh, you know, New Jersey or, or, uh, Georgia or Bangalore, I mean, they have the scale skill set and they are coming here with the same network. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:33 Krishna Mehra Like you get, I mean, very often you'll actually find that, uh, a problem that you think is very small sitting somewhere else and, you know, uh, Bangalore or India is not just one of those places. 3 times in the scene
The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
- ▶ 52:19 Mahesh Ram Um, we have members in Bangalore, and I think we'll end up doing an event in Bangalore this year, I'm sure. 2 times in the scene
He Built "GPT For Shopping" And Got 450M+ Users | Naveen Tewari
- ▶ 1:02:41 Naveen Tewari Uh, anything, anybody travels or anybody in Bangalore is always a great thing.
How A Tiny Team Beat A $1 Billion Giant | Palash Soni, GoldCast Founder
- ▶ 12:54 Palash Soni In Bangalore. 2 times in the scene
How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- ▶ 11:26 Baskar Subramanian Amagi started in what's called geo-targeted advertising on TV, which essentially meant that if you're watching a Z or a Colors in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the same ad spot, if you're in Bangalore, you will see a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:43 Siddhartha Ahluwalia How many of them are in Bangalore?
- ▶ 33:46 Baskar Subramanian So, if you look at it, early days, I think we were, ah, see nobody believed that a company out of Bangalore will be in broadcast tech.
- ▶ 1:17:32 Siddhartha Ahluwalia In very early stage, any advice you would want to give, um, who has just started in Bangalore, planning to move to Bay Area, planning to sell to US market, or people who have some customers in India.
How Anjali Sardana Built a $200M Company in 1 Year
- ▶ 49:08 Anjali Sardana Then we moved to Bangalore and that was the first time we had an office.
Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- ▶ 41:43 Jonathan Siddharth And add a geo constraint for the Bay Area and Bangalore.
India's Answer To China's Control On Global Supply Chain | Bhaktha, Chara Tech
- ▶ 24:36 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like, one of the things can be extracting hard water, ah, from the ground in Bangalore, for example.
- ▶ 36:43 Bhaktha Keshavachar I'm a techie, I'm in Bangalore and all that.
How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- ▶ 49:57 Aneesh Reddy So it's, uh, uh, like, if you compare that to Bangalore, you know, I think we are like five X better in terms of retention.
After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- ▶ 1:01:23 Sudheesh Nair And the advantage is smart people want the same technology that US or Bay Area or Bangalore using anywhere in the world.
Why Construction still Runs on Spreadsheets (And How AI Fixes It) | Sneha & Graham, Merlin AI
- ▶ 9:53 Sneha Kumari We were in Bay Area for Bicycles, has a Bay Area case who's, uh, leading the entire tech, uh, and a little bit of product along with Graham is based out of Bangalore, but he has his base here in Bay Area as well.
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 1:11:01 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Similarly, other companies, you know, Iserta's founder, he has been based in Seattle, but, you know, uh, there are multiple companies like Postman, where the founders migrated from Bangalore.
Where SMALL models will Win | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest ai
- ▶ 11:45 Sudarshan Kamath I, I remember I, I had gone to, uh, Bangalore. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:11 Sudarshan Kamath We got like a small house in Bangalore.
- ▶ 17:27 Sudarshan Kamath We got a small house in Bangalore.
Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- ▶ 38:59 Umesh Padval So he was going back to Bangalore and Mumbai to set up the office in India, and he called me and said, look, why don't you come and let's work together.
What Mistake Founders Make With A-Players | Matt MacInnis | COO Rippling
- ▶ 32:06 Matt MacInnis We happen to be a collection of about 5000 people of which 1500 are here in Bangalore.
- ▶ 57:57 Matt MacInnis It's super interesting because, I mean, look, I myself yesterday was, I was sitting at my desk here in Bangalore, and I was looking at a part of our product that I, uh, use regularly, and I saw this nasty banner come up with this, like,…
How Buyers Discover Startups, From a 10-Year Founder Journey to an EXIT | Ankur & Vishwa, Zenduty
What Went Wrong Before iD Fresh Worked | For the First Time Co-Founders Tell Their Story
- ▶ 2:55 Abdul Nasar (Nachika) It's actually one more, uh, one of my friends, you know, uh, all the no band door. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:16 PC Musthafa How did you find your first job in Bangalore? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:49 PC Musthafa One, you were the first person from the family to come to Bangalore.
- ▶ 18:58 Abdul Nasar (Nachika) Then he came to Bangalore,
- ▶ 32:51 PC Musthafa I still remember, we went to the store called Nilgiri store on Brigade Road, Bangalore, and they had their local batter in the store, own batter, right.
- ▶ 35:30 Abdul Nasar (Nachika) Second struggle was, even in Bangalore, you know, we were little premium from the day one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:47 Abdul Nasar (Nachika) So, once we decided to expand the business, we were, you know, doing very good in Bangalore, and, uh, we started talking about expansion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:26 Abdul Nasar (Nachika) So actually, when I say I have, I did my best, for example, the Bangalore plant, I did the biggest plant.
- ▶ 51:18 PC Musthafa First thing, we ended up starting in Bangalore, because you decided to run away to Bangalore, right? 2 times in the scene
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 0:43 unnamed speaker The beauty of the current AI wave is that the same API is available to a developer in San Francisco as the one in Bangalore.
- ▶ 12:16 Kiran Darisi At that point of time in Hyderabad, he's in Bangor, Patshu is in Chennai.
How TATA Acquired Jaguar, Tetley, Corus and Redefined Indian Ambition | Harish Bhat
- ▶ 2:21 Harish Bhat And, ah, I was in Bangalore in my home that night, when I heard the news.
An Honest Conversation About What Being a Founder Really Feels Like | Arpita & Ananda
- ▶ 4:24 unnamed speaker and then I'm in Ahmedabad's campus and then, uh, moved to Bangalore out of nowhere because Bloom was investing in us and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:45 unnamed speaker We bought a house because of that, like as a bachelor looking for houses in Bangalore, like, uh, it was impossible.
For the CEOs of 2026, From One of India's Top Leaders | Roopa Kudva, Ex-CEO Crisil
- ▶ 26:37 Roopa Kudva I, for personal, I was located in Mumbai, and for personal reasons, I wanted to relocate to Bangalore. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:48 unnamed speaker Very amazing story, and we are sitting next to DBS Bangalore office. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:07 Roopa Kudva From Bangalore, example of a highly entrepreneurial and risk taking capability, a leader with a lot of entrepreneurship and risk taking capability.
From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- ▶ 3:58 Aditya Agarwal Like Silicon Valley, even here in Bangalore, a lot of our career is like we take, you know, whatever, two, three, four years, um, we go and go for a mission, and then after that, we go figure out what to do next, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:06 Aditya Agarwal 70 to 80 community members join us in SPC Bangalore. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:13 Aditya Agarwal To actually our, uh, technology team or kind of our global technology team is actually based out of SPC here in Bangalore.
- ▶ 33:56 Aditya Agarwal You know, before we started SPC here in Bangalore, probably the places where people were really kind of asking for it would be London, would be Paris, would be Bangalore, a little bit in Southeast Asia, the Gulf as well. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:14 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You know, created by two founders sitting in Bangalore.
- ▶ 52:49 Aditya Agarwal And I think it's important to kind of remind myself of that anytime I get super deep into just like the investing game, because I feel really fortunate and kind of like privileged to be here, not just in SPC overall, but especially here in…
3 Steps on How Large Companies Decide to Buy From a Startup or Not | CIO Karthik Chakkarapani
- ▶ 1:23 Karthik Chakkarapani Last time I was in Bangalore, now it is in the Bay Area.
- ▶ 58:59 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And what about, we discussed, let's say this was Bay Area versus Bangalore, but what about Bay Area versus Austin, Bay Area versus Washington DC, the founders are based in Washington DC, but.
How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- ▶ 0:46 Bhaskar Ghosh Whether it's in Rocket Lane or Usher or Yuga Byte, the best engineering teams is all sitting in Bangalore and Madras.
- ▶ 14:06 Bhaskar Ghosh If you bring this Silicon Valley and Bangalore view of SaaS, you bring in, you write good software, you start a seed company, you start selling software to, say, these dentist offices as an example, or these, say, these invoice processing…
- ▶ 32:41 unnamed speaker Um, just to like frame the conversation well, remember, and you and I talked about it, in my past life, some of my best teams during my LinkedIn days and my Yahoo days sat in Bangalore and Hyderabad. 4 times in the scene
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 11:16 Somesh Dash We want to recruit them to work for us in Bangalore or Delhi or virtual.
How Startup’s Should Find REAL Customer Pain w/ 4x Founder Shreesha Ramdas (Lumber)
- ▶ 54:32 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like IT services created Bangalore, created Mysore, created Tunei, right?
How One Indian Company Powers the World’s Hotels & Airlines | Bhanu Chopra, RateGain
- ▶ 26:47 Bhanu Chopra I mean, I was just at a conference a week ago, two weeks ago in Bangalore, and I'm just amazed with the appetite of, uh, hoteliers on how they are looking to expand.
How to Think Like a CEO & Build Like a Fighter | Shiv Shivakumar, Ex-CEO Nokia & Pepsico
- ▶ 11:13 Shiv Shivakumar I know the Tata's have launched a Gen Z apparel brand here in Bangalore that is marketing it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And they now have a store in Bangalore also.
- ▶ 54:53 Shiv Shivakumar And he told the advent team, but he said, hey, do you come to Bangalore? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:23 Shiv Shivakumar I was in Bangalore that day.
6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- ▶ 1:30 Siddhartha Ahluwalia We have been planning to do it between Bangalore, here, there, but finally, you know, able to make it happen. 3 times in the scene
How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- ▶ 18:26 Ashish Toshniwal Maybe like, I don't know, uh, 50, 70 people, something like that, you know, and, uh, we had a team here in Redwood city and we had a team in Bangalore.
- ▶ 42:02 Ashish Toshniwal So I remember I moved to Bangalore.
- ▶ 44:52 Ashish Toshniwal One year I was in Bangalore, moved there with the whole family.
With a Swiss Founder-Investor Who Built 9 Startups and Funded 40 | Thomas Dübendorfer
- ▶ 7:15 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like you can imagine Bangalore and Zurich together.
Why YOU Should Know About Rajeev Motwani, a Genius Indian-American Professor
- ▶ 22:06 Asha Jadeja Motwani So with Rajiv Circle Fellows Program, initially it used to be when I had the time, and I was, of course, much younger, um, it used to be much more based on sort of the people I could reach, people I could run, I would run into in…
How to Build a Startup in 2025? | Shikhil, Co-Founder Astra Security
- ▶ 52:24 Shikhil Sharma They feel really happy, and this is something that I do, like, ah, a year ago I was visiting, ah, Bangalore, and, ah,
Stories from India’s heartland that tell Different story than GDP headlines |Subroto Bagchi,Mindtree
- ▶ 9:39 Subroto Bagchi Now Tirupur is the Bangalore equivalent of the government export industry. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:15 Subroto Bagchi We packed four suitcases, closed our house in Bangalore, and we crossed over.
GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
4 Startups. 2 Founders and 3 Eras Of SaaS: Installable → Cloud → AI | Sreedhar & Kiran
- ▶ 3:16 Kiran Darisi Uh, but his office in, um, Bangalore, right?
- ▶ 21:38 Kiran Darisi At that point of time in Hyderabad, he's in Bangalore, Patsu is in Chennai.
Is China Behind Pakistan's Military Moves? | US Tariffs Hitting India’s Economy w/ Rajiv Sikri
- ▶ 13:44 Rajiv Sikri I mean, you're, you're in Bangalore. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:20 Rajiv Sikri Now you, you were talking about Bangalore.
Sanjeev Sanyal On Why India Has No Big 4, Regulating AI & Ending Population Control
- ▶ 3:38 Sanjeev Sanyal So, uh, these, uh, telecom officials used to make this thing, especially in Bangalore, any BPO you ask from that era, they had to basically pay off somebody. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:31 Sanjeev Sanyal We are building, today we are building, you know, airports, railway stations, the iconic buildings of the future are today being built in Mumbai and Bangalore and all these places.
Growth, Migration and FDI: The Real Kerala Story with Minister P. Rajeev
- ▶ 1:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Started in Kerala, moved their HQ to Bangalore, and whenever they go public, they'll go public in Bangalore.
- ▶ 10:33 P. Rajeev But we have faced some difficulties after a certain stage, they are moving to Bangalore or some other parts.
- ▶ 11:16 Siddhartha Ahluwalia One question I had for you is for the longest period of time, like Kerala has seen, uh, talent from Kerala move to other states, let's say, for example, to Bangalore or even outside, uh, India, let's say to countries like Dubai.
- ▶ 25:30 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, you know, there was some buzz recently when Kerala read out to Bangalore based IT firms during the water crisis, and it drew a sharp response from Karnataka government. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 Siddhartha Ahluwalia On the startup side, you have only one unicorn from Kerala, which is open, and that too, the companies now, you know, started in Kerala, moved their HQ to Bangalore, and whenever they go public, they'll go public in Bangalore. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And it shows the kind of effort that you are putting, like you have come from Kerala to Bangalore to just to record this podcast.
What Startups Can Learn from a $1.7B Co. Chief Information Officer | Karthik Chakkarapani
- ▶ 50:10 Karthik Chakkarapani It's a Bangor based company.
- ▶ 1:00:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, specifically talking from an enterprise point of view or a startup point of view, uh, Bay Area, Bangalore and Chennai. 5 times in the scene
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 1:03:47 Vasanth Namasivayam Let's say I was living in Bangalore. 2 times in the scene
WHAT Will Decide The Next Superpower? | Raja Manickam | iVP Semiconductor
- ▶ 1:05:58 Raja Manickam I mean, Bangalore would have, you know, thousand people who can put a hundred crore each, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:01 Raja Manickam Um, I was, you know, I came to Bangalore and I was trying to, and I've never done business in India.
Why Stripe Paid $150M For A Young Indian Startup | Saurya Prakash Sinha, Recko
- ▶ 0:00 Saurya Prakash Sinha Why would Patrick Coalition send an email to two random dudes sitting out of Bangalore?
- ▶ 2:50 Saurya Prakash Sinha Send an email to two, you know, random dudes sitting out of Bangalore.
How To Hire, Train & Retain Talent To Build A Great Company | Vijay Rayapati | Khadim Batti
- ▶ 4:57 Vijay Rayapati So Kadim is the only founder I meet in Bangalore. 2 times in the scene
#1 Reason Why Most Startups Fail - "They Don't Have A Business Model"
- ▶ 5:48 Ganesh Krishnan You give a requisition that you need to travel from here, Bangalore to Bombay.
- ▶ 24:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Beauty and personal care products is, is large, but I mean, loyalty is tough because still in villages, uh, Lux by Unilever is the, is the, is the mass soap, but we don't hear about that kind of loyalty anywhere in Bangalore like towns,…
Can Neysa be India's AI Cloud alternative to AWS, Azure & Google Cloud? | Sharad Sanghi
- ▶ 17:19 Sharad Sanghi Um, but I know that we had, um, we had set up data centers in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Noida. 2 times in the scene
Lightspeed’s $500M Bet On India With 1/3rd In AI Companies | Dev Khare | Neon Show
10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- ▶ 58:34 Avnish Bajaj Cadence, mentor graphics, synopsis, like all these chip design companies, all of them are in Bangalore. 3 times in the scene
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 32:23 Sharad Sharma You know, as many people, uh, notably, uh, you know, one of, one of the persons who doesn't get enough attention, but has had an incredible impact on Isro is Kasturi Rangan, who lives in Bangalore.
- ▶ 34:46 Sharad Sharma And a save an internet campaign came, you know, here in Bangalore.
- ▶ 1:49:41 Sharad Sharma We know this can work because NCBS here in Bangalore did that, and, and some of the people who made that move are part of design of this thinking.
Zerodha’s Move Into A ₹68 Lakh Cr Industry | CEO Vishal Jain On Expanding India’s 8% Investor Base
- ▶ 31:17 Vishal Jain The third would be Bangalore, which would be between eight to 10%.
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